A dream that started with pandemic boredom came to fruition two years later.
Aaron Judge. Hank Aaron. Jake Aron. What do we all have in common? We’re all Guinness World Record holders. Here’s how I became one.
In April 2020, to cure my boredom during the pandemic, I looked on the Guinness World Records website for records that seemed easy to attempt. I applied to set the record for the most casino chips stacked in one minute.
I waited three months to receive the guidelines. I practiced while I waited. Because I was practicing without the guidelines, I didn’t know I was practicing wrong. (I was stacking the casino chips with two hands when I was only allowed to use one.) Once I got the guidelines, I struggled to stack the casino chips with one hand, and gave up.
I applied for more records that I eventually stopped practicing. I suggested new records, but got turned down.
Two years had passed, and I had stopped looking for records I thought would be easy and instead looked for records I would have fun practicing. I applied to set the record for the Most Baseball Ground Balls Fielded in One Minute. No one held the record, but it was in their system of records to attempt. I had to field 10 ground balls to set the record.
